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Also: when liberals/lefties produce fantasies about a potential coup, they are participating in REALIZING A COUP.
That's why professors of rhetoric CAUTION against that kind of SPECULATION. It makes the possibility more likely because people see it as a legitimate outcome.
That's why professors of rhetoric CAUTION against that kind of SPECULATION. It makes the possibility more likely because people see it as a legitimate outcome.
People want to Be Prepared. I get it. But it's been 4 years. Read some Siskind, FFS. These are not new shenanigans.
But the power is in the FANTASIZING about a MORE destabilized federal government and that's EXACTLY what's going down with the QAnoners and the Parler fascists.
But the power is in the FANTASIZING about a MORE destabilized federal government and that's EXACTLY what's going down with the QAnoners and the Parler fascists.
Cool, calm, collected is how you manage the outrage machine. You don't doing by freaking out the anxious libs. You do it by calmly asserting power.
I study social movements and revolution. You cannot match the Trump Administration's chaotic and destabilizing bullshit with shouting and panic. It's a recipe for disaster.
You need to do joy and celebration and laughter and satire and undermine the chaos with pleasure. Feed people, imagine a future full of freedom, but most of all: do not let the fear of his monstrosity allow you to legitimize [his] bullshit.
